August Wilson Quotes - Page 2

• You are responsible for the world that you live in.

  August Wilson

  World, Responsible

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• There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Men, Who I Am

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• All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

  August Wilson

  Book, Needs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

  August Wilson

  Black, Experience, Custodians

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• I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

  August Wilson

  Lions, May

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• Life don't owe you nothing.

  August Wilson

  Life (Vida)

  August Wilson (1991). “Three Plays”, Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

  August Wilson

  Pensamiento, Gente, Negro

  Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, believermag.com. November 1, 2004.

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• If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Play, Support

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• I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

  August Wilson

  Law, Say Anything, Matter

  August Wilson (2007). “The Piano Lesson”

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• As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

  August Wilson

  Men, White, Long

  August Wilson (1991). “Three Plays”, Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

  August Wilson

  Art, Political, Art Is

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• The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

  August Wilson

  Struggle, Practice, Law

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Marion Isaac McClinton, Tony Kushner (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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• Un novelista escribe una novela y la gente la lee. Pero leer es un acto solitario. Aunque puede suscitar una respuesta variada y personal, la naturaleza comunitaria del público es como si quinientas personas leyeran tu novela y respondieran a ella al mismo tiempo. Me parece emocionante.

  August Wilson

  Lectura, escritura, personas

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• I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

  August Wilson

  Art, Writing, Cutting

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• My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

  August Wilson

  Four, Influence, Borges

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• I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

  August Wilson

  Escribir, Artista, Pensar

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• Mi mayor influencia ha sido el blues. Y es una influencia literaria, porque creo que el blues es la mejor literatura que tenemos los negros americanos.

  August Wilson

  Thinking, Black, Literature

  Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, believermag.com. November 1, 2004.

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• We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

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  Pensar, Años, Tierra

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• Creo que, como dramaturgo, si detallo ese entorno, les estoy quitando algo [a los diseñadores]. Les quito su creatividad y su capacidad de opinar por sí mismos, no sólo de seguir lo que el dramaturgo ha escrito. Así que hago una descripción mínima del decorado y dejo que los diseñadores creen a partir de ahí.

  August Wilson

  Creativity, Thinking, Input

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• So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.

  August Wilson

  Reality, Play, Plot

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• El estilo no es más que mantener la misma idea de principio a fin. Todo el mundo lo tiene.

  August Wilson

  Ideas, Style, Ends

  August Wilson (1991). “Three Plays”, Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

  August Wilson

  Believe, Writing, Social

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• I don't write for a particular audience.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Audience, Particular

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• He estado con extraños todo el día y me han tratado como de la familia. Vengo aquí a la familia y me tratan como a un extraño.

  August Wilson

  Funny Family, Like Family, Stranger

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• I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

  August Wilson

  Mistake, Trying, Done

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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